{"id":1669,"date":"2008-08-21T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/marlins-giants-poinspread-pointers\/"},"modified":"2008-08-21T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:05:00","slug":"marlins-giants-poinspread-pointers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/marlins-giants-poinspread-pointers\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlins-Giants Poinspread Pointers"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Florida Marlins and the San Francisco Giants will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>AT&amp;T<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Marlins will give the ball to starter Josh Johnson in this one. Righthander Johnson is 3-0 this season with a 3.37 ERA. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">It&#8217;ll be Matt Palmer toeing the rubber for the Giants in this contest. Righthander Palmer is 0-1 with a 23.18 ERA so far this season. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">NewBodog oddsmakers currently have the Marlins listed as 175-moneyline favorites versus the Giants, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Giants pulled of a hard-fought 6-5 win over the Marlins on Wednesday, as -125 favorites. The 11 runs made it OVER the posted over\/under (7.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Randy Winn went 3-for-5 at the plate with a solo home run for the Giants. Brian Wilson allowed three runs in relief in earning the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">John Baker cracked at three-run homer for the Marlins, who were +110 underdogs. Matt Lindstrom gave up the winning run and was tagged with the loss. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>: 65-62 SU<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 54-72 SU<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Florida most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 7-3<br \/>Before playing Arizona are 4-6<br \/>After playing San Francisco are 4-6<br \/>After a loss are 7-3<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco most recently:<br \/>When playing on Thursday are 5-5<br \/>Before playing San Diego are 5-5<br \/>After playing Florida are 6-4<br \/>After a win are 3-7<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Florida is 5-11 SU in its last 16 games when playing San Francisco<br \/>Florida is 2-5 SU in its last 7 games <br \/>San Francisco is 11-5 SU in its last 16 games when playing Florida<br \/>San Francisco is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games at home<br \/>San Francisco is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:State><st1:place>Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> at <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Friday, August 22<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Friday, August 22<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Marlins and the San Francisco Giants will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at AT&amp;T Park. The Marlins will give the ball to starter Josh Johnson in this one. Righthander Johnson is 3-0 this season with a 3.37 ERA. It&#8217;ll be Matt Palmer toeing the rubber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/08\/marlins-giants-poinspread-pointers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marlins-Giants Poinspread Pointers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}